🐛️Knowledge Lab🐛️

Knowledge Lab, taugh by Sara Black; gave me an amazing learning experience where there was a good space to lear farming, gardening, ceramics, and thoughtful use of available resources. The main theme was “THE HOLOBIONT COLLECTIVE” which means; all beings are entangeled in benefiting each other.

Knowledge Lab is a sculpture class:
SCULP 4018-001: Knowledge Lab: Entanglements
The Sculpture is THE MEAL - This course was designed for the class members to work towards a final collective project at the end of the semester to prepare a full meal from local resources: plants we planted, mushrooms we grew indoors, a table we built, and ceramics dinner wear we made.

Gardening invloved planting fruits, veggies, and flowers. Also growing mushrooms (indoors).
Also, the class collaborated to build a table from scratch; and make ceramics for dinner wear using natural clay harvested from Lake Michigan beach near Grand Rapids; processed in the ceramics lab at Ox-Bow art school in Michigan. The whole class went on this field trip.

The second field trip was to a local farmers farm to harvest veggies for the meal.

Pictures below takes us through the journey!

>The semester started with cleaning the beds and preparing them for the new seeds. In the very cold winter; we started wroking on it. This was a continuous process till the end of the semster until we started harvesting. I also passed by the garden in the summer after the class finished, and the garden looked amazing!

Pictures below are from our trip to lake Michigan and Ox-bow art school where we collected natural clay, and processed it in the Ox-bow ceramics lab. We also made a meal and tuned in before out finals.

After this trip came the apart where we started making the table and the ceramics. I was in the ceramics team; and not the table team. everyone rocked in their job. The clay we collected needed more processing to be perfect; which is not what our time allowed; we still make the ceramics, but after the big meal (the final) they broke. The picture show the samokes we tested and some of the processing phase!